Palestine must be liberated from the genocidal terror apartheid state "Israel." If that requires a war, then that's what humanity owes Palestinians and itself as a whole, too.
I met Fahd Abu Haikal, the father of 7-month-old Sam, who was murdered by the IDF earlier this month. He showed me the car with bullet holes and Sam’s blood and then Sam’s toys, which he hid to protect his wife from having to see them.
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THE FLAMINGO REVOLUTION HAS LEGS.
@narendramodi@IsraeliPM@netanyahu This is sick. You and your friend no matter how much you try to hide, when the election day comes you all are soon going to fall because of your disgrace politics and profiteering.
GAZA UPDATE
Mass murderer Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize ‘70% of Gaza Strip’, violating ceasefire deal
Netanyahu has said he has given orders to the Israeli army to seize control of 70% of the Gaza Strip in a move that threatens to torpedo an already fragile ceasefire and create catastrophic humanitarian conditions in the already devastated territory.
Under the US-brokered ceasefire in October, the Israeli army withdrew to a demarcation line which gave Israel direct control of 53% of the occupied territory. Since then, Israeli forces have steadily advanced their positions westward into the Hamas-controlled half of the strip, and declared an ever-expanded no man’s land west of that, within which they claim the right to decide who can enter and open fire on anyone perceived as a threat.
In recent days, Israeli-backed armed militias have taken a leading role in emptying the territory along the ceasefire line, telling residents to vacate their homes or shelters.
Throughout the eight months of the ceasefire, Israeli forces have continued to open fire on Palestinians within range of the “yellow line” splitting the strip, and carry out airstrikes deeper inside western Gaza, killing more than 900 Palestinians since the truce began.
Speaking at a conference in an occupied West Bank settlement, Netanyahu, who is struggling for his political survival before elections in the next few months, spelled out the extent of Israel’s territorial goals.
The Israeli prime minister said: “We are currently squeezing Hamas. We now control 60% of the territory in the strip. You know, we were at 50, we moved to 60. My directive is to move to … 70%.”
The defence minister, Israel Katz, said on Wednesday that the government’s ultimate aim was for large numbers of Palestinians to leave Gaza by what he called “voluntary migration” but what human rights activists describe as a long-term plan for ethnic cleansing by making living conditions inside Gaza intolerable.
The expansion of Israeli military control would be a direct violation of the October ceasefire, the UN security council resolution that endorsed it, and Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan, which laid out a temporary “yellow line” splitting Gaza into Israeli- and Hamas-run halves pending further peace negotiations.
The Trump plan also said: “No one will be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to leave will be free to do so and free to return. We will encourage people to stay and offer them the opportunity to build a better Gaza.”
Muhammad Shehada, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said: “Netanyahu is now declaring the whole Trump deal, the framework for Gaza, to be null and void. That’s what it means in a nutshell. There’s no other way to spell it out.”
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed the remaining buildings in their zone, so its expansion to 70% of Gaza would mean that the 2.2 million Palestinians who have survived the war would be crammed into less than a third of their original territory, which was already overcrowded.
“The conditions there are already appalling. It is the single most overcrowded place on the face of the planet,” Shehada said.
Image: A yellow block demarcates the ‘yellow line’ that has separated the Gaza Strip’s Israel and Palestinian zones since the October ceasefire. Photo: Ariel Schalit